From 21st to 25th of October 2024, at kc Monty, Antwerp.
Loverynth – participatory project with a secondary school Broederschool and kc Monty, Antwerp.
School of Love realised a further iteration of Loverynth in collaboration with Broederschool from Sint-Niclas and kc Monty in Antwerp. Building on previous editions, this workshop continued to engage students in artistic processes that challenge normative educational structures and hierarchical classroom dynamics. The students had the opportunity to get in close touch with a theater venue and experience working behind the scene. Through performative and dialogical tools, pupils were invited to reflect on love, kinship and responsibility as lived experiences within school and society.
Students were invited to create their own contemporary versions of the Symposium of Plato. Working in groups, they explored seven perspectives on love—such as kinship, love for strangers, care for more-than-human worlds, love for knowledge, and ambivalent or harmful forms of love—through text, song, movement and visual elements. By rewriting and embodying these perspectives, pupils critically reflected on how dominant ideas of love have been shaped by patriarchy, heteronormativity and social hierarchy for over two millennia, and how these frameworks continue to influence present-day relationships and institutions.
